But recently, we are glad to let Reyes Martinez introduce to us a WProfessional who has worked in Automattic for more than seven years. We have no doubt that she should be interviewed on our blog. I am sure you want to know more about her and her project, so … Welcome Anne McCarthy !
Thank you for your interview, Annie.
I am glad that you are here! Can friends who do n’t know you introduce yourself? Thank you very much for inviting me! I worked at Automattic as a liaison in WordPress. I used to be the head of the developer relationship administrator, the head of a happy engineer team and a happy engineer. I just turned to this new role, so I am glad to study in depth in the next few months and years. I live in the United States. Outside the COVID era, I often jump around in different places to play football, take pictures, and chat with friends. Generally speaking, I think I am an optimist, minimalist and introvert.
Although this interview was published in a professional background, first of all Recently lost his grandmother’s sincere condolences.
You shared some very special stories about her in your personal blog
nomad.blog , you must miss her very much. If you share some of your experiences and teachings with us, we will be very happy. It was great to give me a chance to talk about her. She is such a complex and kind woman, and I am fortunate to be able to contact her and have the opportunity to meet her. She really taught me how far her elegance, perseverance, and humor can go, especially when she is old, and she has been in a stroke many years earlier than her. She is completely herself! A strong example of a powerful example of a powerful example of not being shaken by other people’s expectations and not being troubled by gossip has always been strong. Every second from reading the murderous suspense book to watching the golf game, she has a lot of shameful and strong interest. It gave me findYour own inspiration and confidence.
In order to share an interesting episode, I tried to explain to her at some point And ask her if she was interested in the Internet. She waved my hand and let me walk away, \”What do I need on the Internet?\” This is an extremely humble and cute reminder to really important things. We also have small hands of the same size. I like to put my hands on her hands, and I am surprised by the connection between our generations. This is WordPress, who I and I do:
Anne McCarthy and her grandmother.
Thank you for sharing such a personal thing, Annie.
For our readers, let me recommend reading Anne \u0026#39; s
nomad.blog to learn more about the inspirational story about grandma Anne. However, if you have no problem, let us continue your professional project.
You are the WordPress product liaison of Automattic. What does this mean?
What are the most difficult challenges you have to face?
I just entered this new role, so in fact, I am very happy to define part Work. In short, I regard myself as a promoter, a hard work, and a point connector to work in the WordPress community and Automattic to achieve the future of WordPress. This means that from the new way to feedback to the unseen audience, to helping Automattic’s own products adopt the latest and best products, it is all -inclusive. As far as the most difficult challenge, I think there are a few:
Creation pathway to include more (and different) people in the feedback process.
It is known to ensure that the correct problem is resolved and value.
Large -scale communication between large global projects and companies.
Due to the lack of personal time, the overall loss caused by COVID, and the increasing market share of WordPress, these have exacerbated these problems. As Matt said, combining this completely, the final arduous task is to ensure that open source substitutes are as good or better as the wall garden options in the world today.
Let’s talk about the editor of the whole site. WordPress 5.9 version is delayed mainly because this version needs to contain many functions. Can you explain this decision?
For more detailed ideas and some visual effects, this is an article I wrote when I first decided. In order to solve this problem in detail, from the perspective of my person in charge of version 5.9 version, the following is a senior reason: After a long and crazy year, delayed improvement The sustainability of the contributor, especially in the areas where we have a large number of contributors, will appear greater cultural moments at the end of the year. The interrelated function of the complete site editing makes it difficult to delete or completely delete fragments.
When accessing the entire complete site editing function instead of smaller parts, the value to users increases.
Most of the issues raised will improve the experience rather than redefine it (it will be introduced in detail later).
This is not an easy or simple decision, but I do think this is the correct decision, and I think we have been from middle school to 6.0. There are also some interconnected functions, which can make difficult decisions around the cutting point. I am a coordinator of 6.0, so I know I am looking for everything I learned from 5.9.
One of the problems that often occur in WordPress is that there are so many information everywhere, very much It’s easy to make people feel lost. What do you recommend to start? 呸, no joke! There are so many information. I suggest that people start from this WordPress course. The content is simple website design and a complete website editor. If you need more help, there are some support documents here:
The theme of block Website editor Style Overview
If you like to listen to someone chatting and watching exercises, I will (selfishly) link to my own YouTube video, covering 5.9 and complete website editing functions.
On the other hand, for those who are already using FSEReaders, can you explain to us what the FSE outflow plan is and how they participate?
FSE’s abduction is scheduled to start in May 2020, with the goal of improving the feedback cycle between WordPress users and WordPress contributors. In the past two years, it has become a place that can not only provide feedback, but also grow, share resources with others, and build the latest features of WordPress. We have completed multiple rounds of Q \u0026 A to share knowledge, explore early to understand what is about to happen in advance, and discuss all this in the corridor.
Welcome anyone and everyone to join. If you have not registered the WordPress Slack account and go to
#FSE-OETREACH-EXPERIMENT
, please register one. From there, you can help respond to the test phone and understand the latest situation of the plan in time. For any visual learner, this is another old Youtube video about the program. For anyone who wants to know more information, please check this manual. Finally, about FSE, there are still some functions in the full site editor.
Can you comment on the main FSE function we will soon see?
WordPress 6.0 expanded on the basis of 5.9 settings. This means that the FSE function that people already know can now provide more functions:
Style change: easily switch between the preset style of the theme of the theme author in the block.
Create more types of templates, and now you can choose to use blocks to create authors, dates, categories, labels and classification templates. Using options filtered by multiple authors, support for custom classification filtering, and a new result block can allow you to customize the lack of results, thereby further customizing query cycle blocks.
When you need it, you use a mode that is directly introverted in the experience when you need it to create a new header or footer when creating a new template.
Through the export of improved themes directly from the site editor, enjoy the fun that is closer to the theme of visual blocks than before.
Use code editors, first options and pure text options added to the site editor.
This does not even involve the entire WordPress through expansion design tools, interfaces used to control block locksExperience update.
Now, let’s switch to a new project you participated: square art museum ( Moba).
Who and what is the motivation for creating this new project? The museum is truly inspired by communities and projects. As early as October 2021, I liked to explore some new tools in WordPress, so that when I saw another contributor Tammie Lister is doing, I suddenly realized that real art is possible. Although there are few artistic talents, I am a loyal fan of museums and art, and the popularity has made me miss this experience. Create a virtual idea for the community is too attractive to me.
Art Museum.
Second, what exactly is it, and what can we expect?
Art Museum is an art collection made of WordPress, which aims to show how far you can use WordPress these days. Each special creation is made of only block editors, and in most cases, there are no custom CSS. Want to know how this is done? Just click the artwork that attracts your attention, and you will see that the tags are used in the form of a block with the \”raw material\”.
This is one of my personal favorite Brian Gardner:
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Infinite gradient of Bryan Gardner.
This is one of my creations!
The melting of Anne McCarthy.
Does our reader or us have any way to contribute to this project?
At present, there is no formal submission form. People with inspiration are welcome to use labels #WPBLOCKART
for sharing. I am doing my best to contact people and add their works to the museum. Because this is very similar to my main work, I must be careful not to turn it into a full -time job. What a clean job! Director of Virtual District Museum.
Thank you for providing all this information.
Now it is our most popular question: Sharing your past epic failure, so please admit: Where do you and how to mess up? God. this is very simple. When I first launched the FSE outflow plan, I asked to establish a private Slack channel in WordPress.org Slack. Frankly speaking, my thoughts at the time were a kind of fear: I was worried that too many people would share feedback and want a way to curb chaos, because I was a team work. This is a completely wrong move. I have a very fierce Make Core conference, and I know this clearly. This is the first major measure that I have done in the role of the public a few months later, and I am very shocked. Fortunately, the community is great, and when providing strong feedback, I finally prepare for success. As I like to say, \”Thank you for making me better.\” You can see it all on the public production of WordPress channel and more courses in my public. I am glad that I can be a member of such a enthusiastic, flexible and generous community. I hope to see this project success.
Finally, who should we interview?
Tell us if you want to see which 3 WProfessional and reasons you see in the next interview.
Destiny Kanno and BlackPress and Joe Simpson do such a awesome and influential work. Finding more ways to join this project is very important for the future of WordPress. I believe that more dialogue around this work is also important. Destiny also has an interesting background. Previously, he came from the VIP department of Automattic and was considering using WordPress on a large scale!
Alex Stine is the representative of the accessible team, and I am very happy to know people in the community. His way of dealing with work left a deep impression on me: learning while walking, with others, always helping others. I have been in his field to many things and think that others will be interviewed.
Carolina nymark is the unremitting, kindness and knowledge of the projectThe contributor of the profound.She was sitting at the forefront of WordPress. She created https://FullSiteEditing.com/ as early as many official resources appeared (this is only one of many examples).She is a place that seems to be able to say both we have been to and can say where we will go. She can express her practicality, awareness of bad things, and excitement about the upcoming things.
Thank you for all the details provided today and your time, Anne.
I really like this interview and learn new things about your enthusiasm and WordPress.
I believe our readers will like them too!
All the pictures published herein are provided by Anne McCarthy.
